COUNTRY TROTTING

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 164, 13 July 1945, Page 9

COUNTRY TROTTING

TRANSPORT PROBLEM PLEA FOR MORE PERMITS Special. WELLINGTON, this day. A plea for more permits for country clubs was made at the annual meeting of delegates to the New Zealand Trotting Conference yesterday by Mr. J. B. Carr (Nelson), who moved that in the event of additional permits being granted for the 1945-46 season the allocation should be confined to country clubs only, and that clubs which had suffered a 100 per cent cut be given priority. After discussion, support for the proposal was given in the form of a recommendation to the executive. If carried by the conference the matter might be impossible of executon, said the president, Mr. H. F. Nicoll. Two or three clubs, including Cheviot and Kaikoura, were unable to race under the present restrictions, and the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr. W. E. Parry, had made it plain that if any extra permits were granted racing and trotting conferences must give an undertaking that they would not ask for extra special trains or other transport. How some country clubs would be able to carry on under those conditions it was difficult to see. He thought the motion was a trifle too drsstic. Mr. W. S. Bennett (Kaikoura) said his club could not race unless transport facilities were available. If pushed into the position where they had to hold a meeting next season, and if transport were not available, the meeting would very likely be run at a loss. Mr. Nicoll said the main point to be considered was how to carry on the sport, and it could not be carried on if country clubs had been civen their usual representation. Iney had to cater for owners and trainers by looking after clubs giving the biggest stakes. ' TROTTING DATES Special. WELLINGTON, this day. Dates approved by the New Zealand Trotting Conference yesterday for the 1945-46 season were:— August 18 and 25, New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club; September 10, Auckland; September 29 Methven; October 6, New Brighton; October 13, Forburv Park; October 20 and 22, Auckland; October 20 and 22, Greymouth; October 22, Oamaru: October 27, Inveicargill; October 27, Wellington; November 3 and 10, New Zealand Metropolitan; November 24 and December 1, Waikato; December 27 and 29, Auckland; December 26 Gore; December 26, Ashburtorr; December 26 and .27, Westport; December 29, Winton; December 29 and January 1, ranterburv Park; January 3, Westland, Jamil™ 26. Forbury Park; February 2, Auckland; February 16, New Brighton; February 22, Wellington; March 9, WaikatoT March 16, Wyndham; March 30 and April 6. Wellington; April 13 and 20, New Zealand Metropolitan; April 20 and 22 Hawera; April 27, Manawatu; May 4, Forbury Park; May 4, Waikato; May 11, Auckland; June 3, Ashburton.